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Alohanet, first packet radio network, operational at University of Hawaii.
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First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL.
"@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning -
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection"
Details the design of TCP. -
Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager.
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TCP split into TCP and IP
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Bob Metcalfe and others found 3Com (Computer Communication Compatibility)
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Cisco Systems founded
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Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge
edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created -
Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain
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5000 hosts on ARPAnet/Internet.
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100,000 hosts on Internet
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ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web
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Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year
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Java's first public demonstration
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Microsoft licenses technology from Spyglass to create Web browser for Windows 95
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Sun Microsystems releases Java
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Browser wars begin
Domain name tv.com sold to CNET for $15,000, Netscape and Microsoft two biggest players. -
US Department of Commerce outlines proposal to privatize DNS
ICANN created by Jon Postel to oversee privatization -
AOL buys Netscape
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Browsers wars declared over
Netscape and Microsoft share almost 100% of browser market.
• Microsoft declared a monopoly by US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
•Shawn Fanning creates Napster, opening the possibilities of peer-to-peer file sharing and igniting a copyright war in the music industry. -
A large-scale denial of service attack is launched against some major Web sites like Yahoo! and eBay
Alerting Web sites to the need for tighter security measures -
There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet, numbers doubling since February 2000
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Fixed wireless, high-speed Internet technology is now seen as a viable alternative to copper and fiber optic lines placed in the ground
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The Internet celebrates its 'unofficial' 20th birthday
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Research for Internet usage
The Research project "How much information 2003" finds that Instant messaging generates five billion messages a day (750GB), or 274 Terabytes a year and that e-mail generates about 400,000 terabytes of new information each year worldwide. -
There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online
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There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online
Some stats say over 100 million -
1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats
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Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft
As "the most valuable global brand," and also is the most visited Web site. -
3 billions people are connected to the internet
